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February 21, 2003 12:00 AM
Making me uneasy
In general, I try to refrain from comment about our bizarre new federal department of Secret Police -- oh, excuse me, I mean Homeland Defense. There are many things in life I cannot control and refusing to allow the ones I dislike to get more than a passing scrap of attention is a definite strategy for keeping more attention for the things I can do something about.

However, I find this deeply disquieting. Our executve branch of federal government is definitly making a monster power grab. Thank god the ACLU is already mounting legal challenges.

I am also reassured that someone has decided Bush can't just declare war because he feels like it.

I wish I had a strong sense of what is the right thing to do as a politically attentive citizen. I suppose a letter to the president might have some worth, but I am not his constituency since I didn't vote for him and would vote for a sheep before I voted for him next time. If forced to choose between Bush and Marion Barry for president, I would be hard pressed to decide which one was a worse thing for our nation. Anyhow, I don't talk about politics unless I can do something. This just bothered me more than usual.


Totally random asside: Die Warzau's Good Girls is officially off my playlist until I can find a lyric sheet.

Posted by karen at February 21, 2003 12:00 AM